Social worker - Adult Social Care Bournemouth, England
Job description
Qualified Social Worker (Adult Social Care)
Poole based combined with home-working.
What’s in it for you?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time social worker to join our busy team within the community. We are a supportive and collaborative team with a wealth of experience.
This could be an ideal opportunity for a qualified Social Worker to join the Poole Town Locality Team. We celebrate and share good practice and will give you the development opportunities you need to excel. We are committed to supporting your continual professional development and have a comprehensive development programme whatever the stage of your career.
We prioritise support, learning, development, and wellbeing across our workforce with a strengths-based approach. We also offer hybrid and flexible working that supports a healthy work-life balance.
This role is difficult to match for impact and variety. You’ll find a challenging and highly rewarding career with us, where you’ll have every opportunity to make a positive difference to people’s lives.
The teams comprise of Social Workers and Occupational Therapists working to successfully support adults with a Long-Term Condition their families, carers, and representatives to live as independently as possible in the community.
What you can expect to be doing?
The role will involve undertaking comprehensive assessments focusing on the needs of Clients and Carers, supporting, and enabling people to minimise dependence and support independence through self-directed support, commissioning, monitoring and reviewing packages of care to meet individual assessed needs.
You will be working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team delivering outcome-based services. You will be expected to demonstrate excellent communications skills, advocating for adults to assist them to achieve their outcomes, including signposting and providing information and advice.
Poole Town locality team is a supportive and busy team, committed to delivering quality services to the population of Poole. The successful candidate can expect to receive regular 1:1 supervision, full induction programme and continued training and development opportunities relevant to this job role.
About you
On a daily basis, good organisational skills and prioritisation to manage a varied individual caseload undertaking assessment, support planning and review work is required. The team undertakes a significant amount of Mental Capacity Work, Best Interest and MARM meetings as well as Court of Protection and Safeguarding Work. Therefore, a good understanding of these processes is beneficial however, training can be provided if required.
Please do not hesitate to contact Sheeran Zsigo on 01202 093419, or Henrietta Osikoya on 01202 127286 for an informal discussion or further clarification of the role.
This authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Person Specification for more details.
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on
simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay
structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation and colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. Expected to be in place 2024.
